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Roz Driscoll: A
sculptor, painter and papermaker, Driscoll has for the last sixteen years
focused on making sculptures that explore the sense of touch, many of
which may be touched as well as seen. She is developing the theory and
practice of aesthetic touch through making and exhibiting tactile
sculptures, documenting viewer reactions, investigating tactile
perception, and conducting workshops and lectures. Her work has been
exhibited in the US and abroad and received
awards. She has written a manuscript, Whole Body Seeing: Touch in the
Visual Arts to establish a theoretical and practical foundation for the
inclusion of touch in art.
Her commitment to investigating haptic perception
and advocating for touch is lifelong, growing out of an awareness of the
cultural trend toward alienation from the body. Touch is the new
perceptual frontier. Driscoll exchanges information about haptics with
scientists researching touch around the world, and her artwork resides in
several research labs.
Rand Huebsch: is a printmaker, book artist, and teacher. His articles on print techniques have
appeared in the British quarterly "Printmaking Today", as well
as other publications. For many
years he has experimented with using the etching technique to make printing
plates to emboss on paper and other materials such as clay and thin-gauge
metal. Among the collections holding his work are those of the Victoria and Albert
Museum, the New York
Public Library, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Fogg Art Museum, and Yale and Princeton
Universities.
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Ann Cunningham: has been carving stone since
she was fifteen years old, which led her to wonder, years later, if the
sculptures she was making could be interpreted by touch as well as sight.
She decided to devote her life to tactile art, eventually being
commissioned to prepare low-relief stories and exhibits at the Colorado School
for the Deaf and Blind, the Denver
Art Museum in Denver, CO,
the Museum of Outdoor Arts in Englewood,
CO, the Morton-James Public
Library in Nebraska City, NE, and the National Federation of the Blind
in Baltimore,
MD. Recently the
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Museum, Tactile Art
Gallery,
commissioned Ann to create a sculpture entitled "In Touch with the
Seasons." Ann teaches art classes to develop self expression through
the sense of touch at the Colorado Center for the Blind.
The driving force behind Ann's work is the desire to learn and teach how
we share ideas through beautiful tactile works of art.
Ann Cunningham
is a Board member of the Colorado Independent Publishers
Association--Independent Publishers Working Together. CIPA's
membership consists of over 450 publishing companies and associated trade
professions serving Colorado.
Its website is http://www.cipabooks.com/.
Ann can be reached at 303-238-4760 or emailed at Ann@SensationalBooks.com.
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To contact us:
E-mail:
editor@blindnessandarts.com
We are based in:
Leicester, UK
Eco
Ancient Greek, Verb, pronounced Ekh-o. The Transliterated word is Echo.
New Testament Greek Lexicon
“[To] have (hold) in the hand, in the sense of wearing, to
have (hold) possession of the mind (refers to alarm, agitating emotions, etc.),
to hold fast keep, to have or comprise or involve, to regard or consider
or hold as.”
Source:
http://www.crosswalk.com
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